Creating Activity-Designed Language-Learning Environments for Entrepreneurship Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creating Activity-Designed Language-Learning Environments for Entrepreneurship Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project has produced a range of resources through careful planning, team-building, training, piloting, evaluating, collaborative writing, and reporting. The resources received great attention from Headteachers and teachers, education policymakers and planners, academics and teacher trainers. A handbook available includes all three deliverables of the project: the cradle methodology, a toolbox composed of resources for teachers and classroom activities, and practical implementation recommendations. All outputs are available on the project’s webpage along with an online teacher training course.
The CRADLE project is ambitious as it brought together different educational approaches (Entrepreneurship / Enterprise Education, CLIL, Design Thinking) in an interconnected way. The partners were from diverse academic backgrounds and educational systems and target audience was primary-aged pupils and their teachers/schools.
This project consisted of a partnership between organizations with diverse skills and attributes, such as developing teacher training materials, expertise in entrepreneurial education, and foreign language teaching.
Goethe-Institut was the co-ordinating partner.
It brings expertise in German language teaching, in the development of training materials, in teacher and trainer development, experience in using Action Research and the CLIL methodology, and an extensive and international network of contacts for dissemination.
Shumen University specializes in teacher training.
The University of Athens contributed a rigorous evaluation of the project outcomes and impacts.
The Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship (FFE) is a knowledge center on entrepreneurship education. It brings a valuable contribution to the entrepreneurship aspects of the teacher-training course.
Bantani Education contributed experience in policy design and building networks/partnerships across Europe.
GO! Scholengroep Brussel is a group of schools, including 32 primary schools. It got involved many stakeholders in the discussions on the mainstreaming of the CRADLE methodology and teacher training course.
Six schools formally participated in this project as testbeds representing different socio-economic and educational contexts as well as various foreign language specializations:
Uwekind – an international school in Bulgaria, with an FL focus on English and German;
Ellinogermaniki Agogi – a private Greek school with an FL focus on English and German;
Neue Schule Athen – a newly established Greek school, with an FL focus on German;
Unescoschool, De Toverfluit, and De Iris (members of the GO! Scholengroep Brussel) – all state schools situated in Brussels, with students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Their foreign language focus is French and, to a lesser extent, English.
Up until March 2020, all the activities took place as planned, with occasional allowances for flexibility; once the COVID-19 virus pandemic took hold, live events and school-based activities as well as physical lessons were canceled as there was mainly online schooling. Also the last partner meeting planned for May 2020 in Athens, was canceled and took place online.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 260569 Eur

Project Coordinator

GOETHE-INSTITUT EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• SHUMENSKI UNIVERSITET EPISKOP KONSTANTIN PRESLAVSKI
• Idiotiko Dimotiko Neue Schule A.E.
• ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON
• Uwekind
• FONDEN FOR ENTREPRENORSKAB – YOUNG ENTERPRISE
• GO! Scholengroep Brussel
• ELLINOGERMANIKI AGOGI SCHOLI PANAGEA SAVVA AE